City Of Brass

I've been meaning to spend more time with offbeat first-person swashbuckling roguelike City of Brass, and today's update is exactly the excuse I needed to come back to it. While the launch version of the Arabian Nights-inspired smash n' grab was perhaps a little limited it its scope, today's "Fortune's Rivals" update broadens its horizons with two new playable character classes, as well as the option to swap…

We must be living in a golden age of videogames, because in no other era would I have let something as immediately enticing as City of Brass escape my grasp. While I've been aware of the Arabian-themed first-person Spelunky-like's presence since its debut in early access, I've just not found the time to give it a try. Perhaps the time is finally right, as the…

City Of Brass [official site], the procedurally generated rogue-ish Arabian Nights FPS has entered early access today, allowing you to play a version that the former BioShock developers are keen to stress is unfinished, leaving you "likely to encounter bugs, unfair tuning, and general weirdness." But also have some jumpy choppy whippy fun? I've been having a look.

With the announcement of City Of Brass [official site] today, I was intrigued to learn what this group of Irrational veterans - key players on so many well-loved games like SWAT 4, Tribes: Vengeance, Freedom Force and of course, BioShock - had planned for their first-person Arabian Nights-themed roguelite. I got in touch with team lead Ed Orman to find out more about how Uppercut…

When a collection of former Irrational devs, who worked on BioShock, Freedom Force, Tribes: Vengeance and more, tell you they've got a first-person roguelite for you to play, it's well worth paying attention. City Of Brass [official site] is an Arabian Nights-themed procedurally generated FPS, arming you with a whip and a scimitar, and challenging you to see just how far you can get through…